A fortified position for a weapon.
An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock.
A home that a child or young adult shares with a parent or guardian.
A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger.
A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively.
The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself.
A circular bed of pasta, rice, etc. to be topped or filled with other foods.
A snug, comfortable, or cosy residence or job situation.
A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.
A retreat, or place of habitual resort.
A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt; a den.
A place used by another mammal, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.
A fixed number of cards in some bidding games awarded to the highest bidder allowing him to exchange any or all with cards in his hand.
To successively neatly fit inside another.
To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).
To build or settle into a nest.
To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").
To settle into a home.
To place in, or as if in, a nest.
A coup d'arret, or stop thrust.
An f-stop.
A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
A part of a photographic system that reduces the amount of light.
A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
One of the vent-holes in a wind instrument, or the place on the wire of a stringed instrument, by the stopping or pressing of which certain notes are produced.
An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts.
A consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis.
A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
A save; preventing the opposition from scoring a goal
That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
The squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.
The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
A device intended to block the path of a moving object
The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
A unit of exposure corresponding to a doubling of the brightness of an image.
A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought.
A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.
To cause (something) to come to an end.
To pronounce (a phoneme) as a stop.
To cease; to no longer continue (doing something).
To cease moving.
To end someone else's activity.
To stay; to spend a short time; to reside or tarry temporarily.
To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.
To make fast; to stopper.
To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
To delay the purchase or sale of (a stock) while agreeing the price for later.
To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.
To close or block an opening.
Not to continue.
Used to indicate the end of a sentence in a telegram.